ART

n. 1 skill, skilfulness, ingenuity, aptitude, talent, artistry, craftsmanship; knowledge, expertise; craft, technique, adroitness, dexterity, Colloq know-how Little art is required to plant turnips 2 artistry, artisticness; taste, tastefulness High art differs from low art in possessing an excess of beauty in addition to its truth 3 craft, technique, business, profession, skill The fishermen can't employ their art with much success in so troubled a sea 4 knack, aptitude, faculty, technique, mastery; dexterity, adroitness Conversation may be esteemed a gift, not an art You have acquired the art of insulting people without their realizing it. 5 trickery, craftiness, cunning, wiliness, slyness, guile, deceit, duplicity, artfulness, cleverness, astuteness You have to admire the art with which she wraps him round her little finger 6 arts. wiles, schemes, stratagems, artifices, subterfuges, tricks; manoeuvres, She was expert in the arts which ladies sometimes condescend to employ for captivation